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OXFORD UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC CHAPLAINCYClick here for a message from the Chaplains - October 4
If you are leaving (or have left!) Oxford and not returning for the new academic year, we wish you all the best! Do stay in touch and don't forget to send us your non-University email address.
Follow news via our website, and on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The termcard for Michaelmas will be available soon.
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MASSES:
Sunday - 11am, 5.45pm and 9pm
Monday-Saturday - 12.15pm
'Godparents & Godchildren' programme 2026-27 - NOW OPEN!
The ‘Godparents/Godchildren’ programme for the new academic year is live!
To those who don't know what it is - this is the Chaplaincy's version of 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴.
Returning students are encouraged to sign up as a ‘godparent’ - even if you have been one before. Don’t worry if you don’t have a ‘co-parent’; we can sort that out. Complete the form here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/UZz0trzmtg
If you are coming up - a special welcome! - you can sign up as a ‘godchild'.
Form to be completed here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/PUs897TtFQ
If you know someone coming up to Oxford this academic year, please forward the link to them.
Contact Alvea https://www.catholic-chaplaincy.org.uk/home/student-chaplaincy/about-us/meet-the-chaplains/ for more information.
Register to receive our newsletters at https://www.catholic-chaplaincy.org.uk/home/student-chaplaincy/new-student-contact-form/ (you don't have to be student to sign up!)
See you soon!
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The Mass bulletin is published online and updated weekly (less often over the vacs). Masses are open to all, except the Student Masses, and events to all (unless mentioned otherwise).
For more details or queries, please contact a Chaplain.
Statement following the independent review relating to the former Senior Chaplain
For more details on our safeguarding policy and for a list of contacts, please visit: https://www.catholic-chaplaincy.org.uk/guidelines-for-best-practice/
The Chaplaincy team - Fr Dominic, Alvea, Fr Angga, Fr Frank and Fr William
Please see our Facebook Page for the latest updates.
There are many ways to get involved in life here at the Chaplaincy. We’d love you to contribute in ways that you’ll enjoy. Please do think whether any of the below would appeal.
CHOIR
Sunday 11am Mass
Do you have a good singing voice? Would you be willing to be part of our 11am Sunday Mass choir? You’ll be offering a massive support to us, encouraging our congregational singing and also helping us to enter more prayerfully into the celebration of the Mass through the pieces the Choir sing .
Pre-Mass rehearsal at 9.45am on Sundays. Please contact peter.varga@psy.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Sunday 9pm Mass
Pre-Mass rehearsal at 8.15pm on Sundays. Please contact miriam.mayer-rieckh@oriel.ox.ac.uk for more details.
READING
Sunday Masses
Reading at Mass is a wonderful way of taking to heart the Sunday scriptures, and a reading well-read can help the congregation be touched more deeply by the Word of God. So this is a valuable ministry and also an experience that will help you in other situations of reading or speaking in public. Please contact Alvea (alvea.fernandes@cathchap.ox.ac.uk) to volunteer.
SERVING
11am Mass
Servers say they come to understand the Mass more through serving. All welcome to volunteer and training will be given. If you are already an experienced server, we would be very grateful if you put that experience to good use here at the Chaplaincy, especially on big occasions like the Academic Mass and at the Mass for Baptisms, Receptions and Confirmations in Trinity Term. Please contact adam.gardner@spc.ox.ac.uk.
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST
Sunday Masses
To assist the priests in the distribution of the Holy Communion, especially in the offering of the Chalice. Special preparation is offered to those wishing to be Eucharistic Minisiters, which include some prayerful reflection on the significance of the Eucharist and the Real Presence. Please contact Fr William (wpearsallsj@jesuit.org.uk) for further information.